Downsizing Clutter
One of my goals for 2011 is to simplify my life and reduce the amount of belongings I have. I had no idea when I started into my goal how much stuff I actually have. While I wouldn’t consider myself a hoarder, it has taken me months to sell hundreds of items in my house. After three garage sales I still have boxes and boxes of ‘stuff.’ Earning Money from Selling One of the strangest aspects of downsizing is how much...
Planting Flower Bulbs Upside Down
I’m great a growing weeds; they thrive under my close care and gardening skills. However, it is the rest of the green stuff that doesn’t seem to do so well. Perhaps it is my lack of watering or not understanding soil types or fertilizer. I seem to do better with cactus than weeds. Maybe that is because I lived in Las Vegas for 17 years. After a bit of encouragement from my best friend, this spring I made my first attempt...
Time Acceleration Theory
Almost everyone I’ve ever talked to on the subject agrees—days are getting shorter and time is accelerating. People shake their heads trying to figure it out. What the heck? Is time really accelerating? Why does every day seem to pass by faster and faster? After pondering this for several years, I finally developed a theory to explain this strange phenomenon which I later dubbed simply the “Time Acceleration Theory.” Ok, here is what...
Four Theories of Origins of Life
There are currently four generally accepted theories as to how life came to exist here on our planet (or in the universe). Random chance God created it Anthropic principle Biocentric Random Chance Theory Some believe life and came to exist on our planet through sheer random chance, that is was a simple numbers game. Carl Segan popularized the Drake Equation which predicts the probability of life existing on a planet somewhere else in...
Reset Button Theory
Introduction I believe that almost everyone experiences pivotal events in their lives which act as a ‘reset button.’ These events cause us to question the reality which we believed to be true–and more often than not, this questioned reality is an adopted reality. The outcome after passing through a ‘reset button’ experience is we reject an adopted reality and replace it with a new belief based up personal...